The 5 Countries With The Most Expensive Beer In The World

Despite your best travel planning, you can’t only visit places with incredibly cheap beer. That’s why we used crowd-sourced, cost-of-living site Numbeo.com to figure out which five destinations charge the most for a pint. Don’t look surprised when a bartender demands far more króna than your usual round sets you back at home… but if you’ve gotta shell out, we also bring you RateBeer‘s best-ranked suds by country.

NOTE: We exclude countries where alcohol’s frowned upon or difficult to procure. Because you wouldn’t want to go to those places anyway. Our list is based on the average price for a domestic draft beer from a bar or restaurant.

4. IsraelAverage price for a pint: $6.96Most expensive city: Tel Aviv, where a beer’s closer to $7.39Suds worth your shekels: Israel’s recent wave of microbrews are where you should focus, starting with Salara Smoked — a high-scoring (91) British-style stout. From there you can keep it dark with Negev’s full-bodied, oak-aged Porter Alon, or roll with something a little lighter like Alexander Green India Pale Ale, which’s brewed by a retired fighter pilot and described as a “hoppy IPA with a nose of grapefruit, guava, and mango” .

3. IcelandAverage price for a pint: $7.21Most expensive city: Reykjavik, where a beer’s closer to $7.37Suds worth your kròna: Brewed on an old dairy farm in view of an active volcano, the aptly named, high ABV (9.4%) Ölvisholt Lava Smoked Stout — like Bjork in ’93 — tops RateBeer’s Icelandic charts with a 99. However, if you want to know what the wolf says, try Borg Úlfur Úlfur (Wolf, Wolf) Double IPA, which’s made with four kinds of American hops that “run wild, fierce, and bitter in taste! Grr. Grr”.

2. MonacoAverage price for a pint: $8.21Most expensive city: They’ve only got the oneSuds worth your euros: The world’s second-smallest city-state boasts a microbrewery (Brasserie De Monaco) that, while not setting any RateBeer records, has a solid lock on the local beer scene. You’ll want to roll with the non-filtered, German-style Blonde 5° Pilsener, or the Ambrée, a 5.5% ABV amber ale with hints of caramel.